Oiling device for journal-boxes



F. R. AND'C. I. M. WEBER.

OILING DEVICE FOR JOURNAL BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 2, 1919.

PanteaJune22,1920.

UNITED, STATES FRANK R. WEBER AND CHRISTOPHER lVi'. ln/'EBEB, F ST. P ii,

OILING DEVICE FOR J OURNAL-BOXES.

f-L334494l65, Y Specification of Letters Patent. Pagngd JNE@ 229 192@ Application led April 2, 1919. Serial No. 286,887.

To allai/wm it may concern: fillet end 0in the bearing 9 of the axle 10. Be it known that we, FRANK R. VTrione The end of the bearing is formed with the and CHRISTOPHER J. M. WEBER, citizens of usual shoulder 1l. The brass 6 is provided vrthelUnited States, residing at St. Paul, in with the usual Babbitt bearing 12, which, 5o V5' the county of Ramsey and State of Minneas shown rests on the upper portion of the Sota, have invented-certain new and useful` bearing 9 thereby transmitting the load to improvements in Oiling Devices for Jour- .the axle. The front end of the journal box nal-Boxes,of which the following is aspeci- 1S somewhat irregular in shape, hai/'ing a iicati'on. gradually curved vertical oiset 13, in each "lo This invention relates to oiling devices of the Side walls 3 to render the door open` to bo used in connection with journal boxes ing of the bor; somewhatnarrower in width for railway -car axles. than the main body thereof. rl`he rioor 2, An Object, of the invention is to provide,- rises rom said oti'sets outwardly and upin devices of this' character, improved oil wardly to form a curved inclined portion ll, distributing means that may be easily inthereby bringing the base of the door opeir Vsei-ted or withdrawn through the usual end ing a considerable distance above the floor opening 'of the journalbox, and which will The usual door 15, rotatable on pivot 16 is irequm no Special modifications in boxes of provided to serve as a closure for the door 'standard design, preparatoryrto receiving openings. r"Ehe descriptive matter in the 75 the invention. foregoing applies to one type of ordinary .Another object of the invention is to prorailway car box journal, vapplicants having vide'in a device of the character described, elected to show their invention applied to certain novel features of construction, wherethis type.

- bythe oil is economically and eiiiciently disin Fig. 2, is shown, in cross section the So 55 tributed and eectivel sealed against inoil reservoir or an 17 ada )ted to be sli ed n y z: L a. vaglon or dust and gut through the door opening to the floor 2 and To this end the invention consists in the slid under the bearing 9 when the brass is features of construction, combination and renewed. The pan is rectangular in shape arrangement of parts hereinafter described and has.two side walls each having an in- 85 and Claimed, wardly Haring upper portion 1S, the front Referring to the accompanyingdrawings: and rear walls 19 -cut away to loosely Figure l, is a vertical sectional vie of the around bearing 9, so that the straight edges entire journal box on a line 1-1 indicated 20 of said flaring portions may be brought in F ig. 2. close to the bearing surface. Removably e@ F ig. 2, is a vertical sectional view on line itting the interior of the pan is the knock 2-2 of F ig. 1. down frame B, one end of which is shown in F ig. 3, is a fragmentary .plan view of F 5. rlhe frame rotatably supports a pair the floor of the journal boX s `owing part `oit of iluted rollers or oil carriers 21, having the invention (partly in section) positioned spindles 22 adapted to roll in the slots 23 in thereon. the' end members 24 of said frame. The .F ig. 4, is a fragmentary vertical section slots are located one on either side of a verthrough the floor of the journal box, showtical median line drawn through said end ing two parts of the invention as they apmember, and lie in a curve with its center pear in the process of adjusting the device in said line. Said vertical median line also 1'- for use and intersects the center of the bearing 9, the Figs. 5 and 6 are perspective views oi deradius of the curve of the slots 28 being tails, somewhat greater than the radius oi' said Referring to the drawings, A represents bearing, the respective centers a and o there a journal box of ordinaryy design and coinof (Fig. 2) arranged one above the other. prises a top wall 1, a iiat smooth iioor 2, and This diiierence between the two radii, etvertical parallel side walls 3. The side walls ects a downward and inward movement of are interrupted by projecting columns si, the rollers toward each other and toward both to accommodate the truss bolts '5 on the and against the bearing S), as is plainly illusoutside and the brass 6 on the inside, the lug trated in Fig. Q. Each end wall is cut away ae 7 thereof fitting around said column. The at the top to forni the edge 20 oitx the pan, rear wall 8 approximately alines with the and is drilled near its lower edge to receive v having a long depression porting 'thin supportingdevice the pin 25 of Ithe spreader rods 26. The forward lower edge of the pan is formed with an inclined surface 27 adapted to engage the inclined front ed e 28 of the flexible The thin supporting device C comprises a plurality of coniparatively long, narrow slats 29 strung on a continuous wire 30. Each slat, except the first three, is pierced by an opening 31 near each end to receive said wire,tlie end slat in its inclined surface to render the latter non-obstructed. As shown in Fig. 6,.the first slats of the supporting device are provided with oblong holes 32, so that when the wire is Vgrasped with the hand by the loop 33 thereof, the two sides ofthe wire in said three slats will be drawn centerward, thereby-withdrawing the latch 34 attached to the wire one at each end of the first of the slats 29. Said first slat is hollow, wherein the Vlatches are adapted to slide, a coil spring 34a holding said latches in extended position. Thus, when the loop 33 is pulled the latches are first withdrawn and the supporting device then bodily moved. The latches, as shown, are suitably tapered and vadapted to engage side edges' of thekdoor and be pressed inwardly thereby, there until the offset 13 has been passed, when both latches are projected against the wall 3. Thus, when the oil pan has been placed into position under the bearing, the flexible supporting -device is next inserted, (Fig. 4) the wedge shape slat initially prying up the pan so that the supdevice. may be'slid home. Thesupporting device is of suitable thickness to bring the edge 20 into close proximity to the journal.

opening, and held to receive the wire the axle slowly rece des from `the pan, brit ing as itis carrie tially submerged rollers lug 35, on the second sla-'t the lpan positioned.

We claim: 1. In combination with an open 'front journal box and-a journal therein, an oiling of oil on the beard in the flutes of the parfrom the pan. A assists vin keeping device including means rendered effective responsive to the move when in contact therewit vice adapted to be inse front and under said the latter to cause it to journal, said ,supporting device comprising a plurality of conti flexibly joined together thereof being chamfere 2. In combination with ing a front opening and nal in said journal box, der said journal and contacting therewith to be oper rotated an ment h, a supporting deof said journal rted through said open oiling device to raise contact with said guously disposed slats the forward slat d to form a wedge.

a journal box havan offset in each d opening and a jouroiling devices unated thereby when said (journal is d a flexible supporting evice uny der said oiling devices to hold the latter -in contact with said journal, said supporting device having sprl gage said offsets and a ha with said latches for withdrawing said latches from said is pulled,

d `then withdrawing said rsupportoffsets an inv device bodily. Tn testimony w tures.

FRANK R. WEB CHRISTOPHER first,

ng pressed latches to enndle in connection when said handle hereof we aixrour signa- ER. J. M. WEBER. 

